Announcing: The Business Outlaws Podcast

My good friend Chris Collins is the best business fixer I know. Recently, the two of us were chillin’ in the backyard of my mansion in the Hollywood Hills, discussing business as we so often do.

Chris said to me, “Man, I wish I knew this stuff when I was 20. If I did, I would’ve been a millionaire by the time I was 21.”

I couldn’t have agreed with him more.

Whenever the two of us get together, we go deep on topics NO ONE is talking about.

Seriously, out of all the books, magazines, blogs and podcasts available, no one is discussing the REAL shortcuts to success. At least, not the secrets that have made us hundreds of millions of dollars and No. 1 in our chosen industries.

As you know, I’m a huge believer in giving back to the community. I love making money, but it’s giving back that makes me truly happy.

Chris is the same way.

So we came up with an idea: We would start a podcast to give millennials the mindset and tools they need to become millionaires.

I started growing and selling cannabis in 1983 when it was illegal. For decades, I was by definition an outlaw pot grower.

And when I got busted in 2001, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police estimated that, over the previous year, the crew I ran had grown and trafficked $50 million worth of premium-grade marijuana.

My High Times cover on Bill Maher

They called me British Columbia’s Tony Soprano, a veritable marijuana don.

And even today, as I run my $105-million-a-year cannabis nutrient company, with clients in over 100 countries, I still consider myself an outlaw. I abide by the laws, but go against the grain.

Chris is like that as well. He can take any business and, no matter how poorly it’s performing, turn it around within months.

Time and again I’ve seen him double, even triple a business’s profits within 3–6 months. Many of his methods are unorthodox. They’re not what the crowded world of consultants and business gurus teach. His methods are FAR more effective.

Chris’s strategies work — 100 percent of the time.

His clients refer to him as The Wolf — like Harvey Keitel’s character in Pulp Fiction.

And if that’s not outlaw, I don’t know what is.

Chris and I have collectively invested millions in our education. I’m not talking about college. I’m talking about high-level masterminds, hard-to-find courses, and in-the-trenches trial and error.

We’ve done the heavy lifting so you don’t have to.

On The Business Outlaw’s Podcast, we’re passing the torch of success onto the next generation of entrepreneurs — those young men and women who refuse to spend their days slaving away in a cubicle for some corporation they could care less about; who refuse to allow themselves to be tied down to their businesses, spending most of their time putting out fires; who insist on having the freedom to live and experience the kind of life they want and deserve.

But fair warning, this show isn’t for everyone.

When we speak, we’re unfiltered. On each episode, we talk about the same strategies, principles and systems we do in private.

Some people will be alarmed by what they hear. So be it. People are conditioned at a young age to follow the rules without question. This podcast is not for people content to operating within the frame of that conditioning. It’s for those committed, ready and willing to break through and go beyond it.

In business, you need to think or yourself. And sometimes the truth hurts.

What’s important to us is that we’re making a difference in people’s lives, regardless of if we rub a few people wrong along the way. Our hearts are in the right place, and that’s what matters. Plus, we know what the fuck we’re talking about and our track records proves it.

About BigMike Straumietis

If you grow or consume marijuana, you've benefited from something BigMike has done.

Since 1983, BigMike Straumietis has worked tirelessly to find new ways
to bring marijuana to its true genetic potential-legally and illegally. He's overseen
the cultivation of over a million pot plants, been the target of a federal manhunt
by the DEA and U.S. Marshals, lived on the lam for almost a decade under seven
different identities, and brought over 50 firsts to the world of marijuana growing.
In 1996, BigMike took $25,000 he'd made from a small illegal grow in Temecula,
California, snuck into Canada with a fake passport and built a growing and
trafficking organization 200 people strong. He then used his growing and
business expertise to start his company, Advanced Nutrients. Today,
Advanced Nutrients is the maker of the #1 selling cannabis-specific
nutrient line in the world, with over $105 million a year in sales from
over 100 countries.

When he's not figuring out ways to grow bigger and better buds, throwing
parties at his world famous marijuana mansion, or running Advanced Nutrients,
BigMike dabbles in creating social change. His charity Holiday Heroes feeds
over 26 thousand people in need, each Easter and Christmas. Mike created
the political party, Nova Bulgaria, in order to create real change in the corrupt
government of Bulgaria. Advanced Nutrients donated over a million dollars
worth of nutrients to assist sick and dying patients, built a classroom in
Uganda, and constructed a grow room for CannaMoms, to allow children who
suffer from conditions such as epilepsy and cancer access to the medicine
they need. Advanced Nutrients also lends seed money to individuals in
developing countries who dream of starting a small business, but lack the
means to do so, donate heavily to the Marijuana Policy Project, and are
spearheading MMJ Bulgaria, which advocates for Medical Marijuana
legalization in Bulgaria.